Pam

Pam is a coworker Villanelle meets while working an ordinary, unglamorous job, tucked into the background noise of a normal English workplace. She is kind, a little overlooked, easily won over by attention, and treats the strange new woman beside her with unguarded warmth rather than suspicion.

Anjana Vasan plays ordinariness as its own kind of tension: every gentle, guileless moment lands harder because we know who she's standing next to. The performance never winks at the audience — Pam's sincerity is real, which is precisely what makes the scenes so quietly unbearable to watch.